Avoiding machines from stopping will allow you to have them constantly producing.
Knowing the condition of a tool used to depend on an invasive or reactive maintenance task and was based on the experience and opinion of the workers that used it.
Now, this has changed.
Being able to detect when a team starts to present operative values outside the scope of work will allow us to solve the problem before it fails and production stops.
Nowadays, in general, equipment maintenance is carried out in a corrective way, no matter the industry it belongs to. That is to say, it is carried out when equipment is already failing or has stopped working, resulting in a halt in production and provoking a decrease in productivity and the consequences associated with it.
In other words, we could know the condition of a tool always depending on invasive maintenance and according to the experience and opinion of the workers who used it.
When Industry 4.0 arrived at factories, we could start carrying out predictive maintenance; in other words, new maintenance opportunities emerged with information available about processes and systems. This allows workers (or even smart programming systems) to monitor the equipment conditions, thus, anticipating possible faults and improving the use of assets.
With the incorporation of different sensors, we have the possibility of knowing when a tool produces less or when it is poorly functioning by sending us an e-mail notification or by any other medium so that we can prevent greater equipment or product damage.
This will not only save us from repairing serious damage to the equipment but also allows us to avoid the production of faulty batches.
Sensors are incorporated without modifying the equipment and they can analyze different variables such as temperature, vibration, oscillation, unusual functioning sound, among others.
Predictive maintenance has a number of inherent benefits such as: optimized use of pieces, reduced costs, greater equipment lifetime, plant security, product quality (manufacturing with almost no faults), reduced number of accidents, or effortless integration with the company’s programming, among others.
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